Tony Judt

When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995 2010 Tony Judt

Publisher Marketing: In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, wghat was and what is with what should be. In "When the Facts Change," Tony Judt s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of Judt s life, the years in which he found his voice in the public sphere. Included are seminal essays on the full range of Judt s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality, before 1989 and thereafter; Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in an age of increasing inequality."When the Facts Change" also contains Judt s homages to the culture heroes who were some of his greatest inspirations: Amos Elon, Francois Furet, Leszek Ko akowski, and perhaps above all, Albert Camus, who never accepted the complacent view that the problem of evil couldn t lie within us as well as outside us. Included here too is a magnificent two-part essay on the social and political importance of railway travel to our modern conception of a good society; as well as the urgent text of What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy, the final public speech of his life, delivered from a wheelchair after he had been stricken with a terrible illness; and a tender and wise dialogue with his then-teenage son Daniel about the different outlooks and burdens of their two generations. To listen to "When the Facts Change" is to miss Tony Judt s voice terribly, but also to cherish it for what it was and still is: a wise, human, deeply informed view on our most pressing concerns, delivered in good faith." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2014 pg. 59 (EAN 9781594206009, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 01/18/2015 pg. 17 (EAN 9781594206009, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 01/25/2015 pg. 22 (EAN 9781594206009, Hardcover) New York Review of Books 05/21/2015 pg. 31 (EAN 9781594206009, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Judt, Tony Tony Judt was a University Professor, the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies, and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. Contributor Bio:  Pratt, Sean Sean Pratt (AEA/SAG/AFTRA) has been a working professional actor for twenty-five years. He has been an audiobook narrator for seventeen years, has recorded over 700 books in almost every genre, and has received eight "AudioFile" magazine Earphones Awards and four Audie Award nominations from the Audio Publishers Association. Contributor Bio:  Gavin, Marguerite Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous "AudioFile" Earphones and "Publishers Weekly" awards. Marguerite has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career and has over four hundred titles to her credit.